This image solved my problems when having the same symtom described Boris

|Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 11:22:21 +0700
|From: Sergey Sysoev <ssa@avtf.org>
|Subject: Cobalt Raq1: I've finally done it! :)
|
|Hello,
|
|I  want  to say thanks to all and especially to Dennis for his install
|disk  image.  NoDMA  image  works  fine  on Cobalt Raq1.
|
|http://only.mawhrin.net/~cdi/netbsd/cobalt/nodma/image.iso.gz
|
|It  seems that 1st image with DMA has some problems with Raq1 but I am
|not sure 100% and will try after a while.
|
|--
|Best regards,
|Sergey

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Boris Ruppert wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:44:32 +0000
> From: Boris Ruppert <bobo@sideburns.dyndns.org>
> To: port-cobalt@NetBSD.org
> Subject: raq1 installation from recovery-cd
>
> hi everybody,
>
> yesterday i tried to install a friend's cobalt raq1 with the recovery-cd.
> the installation hangs, the last thing i see is "starting local daemons"
>
> the instructions provided with the recovery cd are not very helpful in my
> opinion, so just inserted the cd bootet my pc with it and turned on the raq.
> i did not modify the disk manually, does the cd require a netbsd prepared disk ?
>
>
> here's what i get from the serial console (only the last lines):
>
> nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 10.0.0.254

<SNIP>

> /etc/rc: WARNING: No swap space configured!
> starting local daemons:
>
> Hope anyone can help me,
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> Bobo
>
> --
> Boris Ruppert --- bobo@sideburns.dyndns.org
>

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